Contemporary Female Artists

Artist can be identified as members of particular groups or movements through their artmaking practice that inevitably allows them to influence each other as well as conveying a particular personal meaning through their art. Due to the changes in the art world over time, beliefs and practices have changed and movements and groups have been more relevant to artists. Vanessa Beecroft, Julie Rrap and Sophie Calle are prime examples of artists associated with a group or movement. Feminism is a movement that advocates gender equality for women and campaigns for women's rights and interests. A revolutionary change for Women’s liberation, a movement that addresses "the issues that divided women."
As a leading figure for the feminism movement Vanessa Beecroft, a “postfemisnist artist” focuses on large-scale performance art, usually involving nude, live female models. Each of the performances made for a specific location and often references the political, historical, or social associations of the place where it is held. Beecroft’s work ‘show- 1998’ is deceptively simple in its execution, provoking questions around identity politics and voyeurism in the complex relationship between viewer, model and context. Vanessa Beecroft's performances have been described as art, fashion, brilliant, terrible, evocative, provocative, sexist, disturbing, and empowering as not only does it challenge the audience it also confronts them to real issues that allow the audience to ponder the impact of these images. The primary material in her work is the live female figure, which remains ephemeral, and separate. These 20 women appeared at the Guggenheim museum, mainly unclothed, similar, unified through details like hair color, or identical shoes, stand motionless, unapproachable and regimented in the space while viewers watch them. Symbolic of Beecroft’s underlying message to the audience- beauty fades; the models became tired as their beauty didn’t last because they were subjects of show the...